before the president's visit, the activists were visited by vice president joe biden, they were visited by the white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonough, senior adviser valerie jarrett, the agriculture secretary, tom vilsack, labor secretary thomas perez, the white house domestic policy council was down there. they have each been visited by two republican members of the house, jeff denham and david valedeo, who say they want the vote. they say they would vote with democrats to pass it. tonight on the house floor, florida congressman joe garcia recognized those hunger strikers, five of whom were in the house gallery tonight. he called on republican leaders to allow that senate immigration bill to come to a vote. barring a hanukkah miracle, a prekwanzaa miracle? i don't know. barring some kind of late-in-the-year miracle, this congress is going to be the least productive congress in the history of the united states of america. republicans have been very, very good at repeatedly fake repealing obama care, almost four dozen times now, but that's not actually policy. and now, that time is